Hate is powerful, but until former president Joe Biden’s admission this week that he was riddled with cancer, most Americans would have thought Democrats’ hatred of Donald Trump and their maniacal lust for spinning the country into Eurosocialism would have stopped before their lies and deceit sacrificed the head of their own party.
Now we know better, and the end of the storm is nowhere in sight.
The revelation suddenly provides answers to a lot of questions. To trivialize: the cat’s out of the bag, and Democrats may pay for this longer than the Republicans paid for Watergate.
Health experts have only macabre contravention at the flimsy assertions by Team Biden that his cancer was only discovered since he left office. Some doctors who treat prostate cancer every day say he likely had it for years; certainly prior to the circus act 2024 Democrat election campaign. That fact, and the fact that his handlers and the mainstream media hid it and ignored its impact in an attempt to maintain control of the presidency, is the biggest scandal in American politics certainly in 50 years, and possibly for the past century.
Biden wasn’t just thrown under the bus for his party’s ambitions; he was quite literally sacrificed – like the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine were sacrificed to deadly doses of radiation in order to extinguish a nuclear fire that threatened to burn a hole all the way to the center of the Earth. To the Leftists in Biden’s circle feverishly trying to keep Donald Trump out of the presidency, the threat was comparable.
The week brought the answer to questions that have perplexed pundits on either side ever since Biden’s Covid tag-team victory over Trump in 2020. Biden’s career to that point was dubbed center-left – Democrats themselves were surprised at the left-full-rudder turn of his presidency, which usurped even Barack Obama’s second term transition away from American norms and toward Eurosocialism. When the Right – and others – wondered aloud who was really running the country in Joe Biden’s absence of cogency, it was and still is a legitimate question.
Truth rained down with the Biden cancer announcement – an effort aimed at heading off criticism sure to come from the publication of “Original Sin,” the tell-all book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. The book lays out in surprisingly candid fashion the extent to which Biden’s own cabinet and close associates were concerned about his mental and physical fitness for office – and the fact that mainstream journalists, in Trump-hate complicity – lied to themselves and their audiences and covered up the story.
Why the years-long subterfuge? Because the Left’s visceral hatred for Donald Trump surpassed not only their concern for the future of the country, but the literal survival of Joe Biden himself. An inner cabal determined policy, chose positions and ran the autopen that ran the country whether Biden realized it or not. To them, a shadow presidency was justifiable and preferable if the alternative was a hole to the center of the Earth.
The Federalist’s Breccan Thies summed it up best: Until Biden’s implosion on national television and his retreat from the race in July of last year, Democrats brayed “Democracy is on the ballot;” and then expected Americans to vote for someone who wasn’t even in charge.
For Biden’s unconscionable friends, family and close associates, stopping Trump made sacrificing “Joe From Scranton” worthwhile. Hate brought darkness to their souls, just like 1John 2:9-17 relays:
9 “Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him[a] there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”
How sad that even in the light of this week, the darkness of their hate prevails. ###
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
